Word: ansonia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like many of his own students, Sam Gould represents the first generation of his family to seek and get a college degree. He grew up in Connecticut's Housatonic valley, where his Lithuanian-born father was a wholesaler of paper, twine and groceries in the small towns of Ansonia and Shelton. It was not a wealthy family, and Sam worked at odd jobs to save money for college-only to discover that his father, in hopes of doubling the investment, had lost it all on a stock-market fling...
...often phenomenal. Beginning his New England campaign in Bridgeport Sunday morning at 12:30 a.m., he was met at the airport by several thousand people who had waited in the rain more than two hours for his arrival. As he motorcaded through the small towns of Shelton, Derby, and Ansonia he stopped to give speeches...